If`s and buts are rather important when viewing WW2 IF the RAF had not won the Battle of Britain in 1940 stopping the Invasion of the UK there would have been no Normandy, no convoys to Russia and all the Divisions and Squadrons based in France waiting to invade Britain and the Afrika Korps fighting the British in North Africa would have been free to join the Attack on Russia... considering how close the Germans came to defeating Russia (outskirts of Moscow ) this IF is rather significant .

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